For order details, visit: https://doas.us/2025-order-bird-seed/

Stock up for the winter months ahead! From now through October 19, the Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society (DOAS) will be accepting orders for bird seed. Our annual bird seed sale will raise funds to support DOAS programs in 2026.

This sale is open to the public—membership isn’t required to order!

Your order directly supports DOAS’s programs! Proceeds will go toward field trips, special events, the Franklin Mountain Hawkwatch, youth programs, and speaker fees for meetings.

DOAS is offering quality, locally sourced bird seed to keep your feeders full throughout the winter. Choose from a variety of seeds, including:

• Black oil sunflower seeds
• Multiple seed blends
• A special woodpecker blend
• Nyjer seeds
• Suet cakes
• And more!

Don’t miss out—and thank you for supporting DOAS!

DOAS is also taking orders for bird-friendly coffee—harvested from coffee plantations that are certified by the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center to meet rigorous standards for a product that is organic, fair trade, and supports habitat biodiversity.

You can also order Feather Friendly Window Decals and Acopian Bird Savers for your home or a great gift for bird-lovers on your holiday list!

• ORDER DEADLINE: SUNDAY, October 19, by 5 p.m.
• PRODUCT PICKUP: SATURDAY, November 1, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• PICKUP LOCATION: VP Supply Corp., 69 Country Club Road, Oneonta, NY.

For order details, visit: https://doas.us/2025-order-bird-seed/

Mark your calendars for the Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society’s 57th Annual Charter Dinner on Friday, October 17, 2025, at the Banquet Room of the Sixth Ward Athletic Club located at 22 West Broadway in Oneonta, NY. We’re very excited to announce that Bella Michael’s Restaurant has agreed to cater the affair. The new menu is outlined below.

Click Here for Online Registration

The evening will begin as usual at 5:30 p.m. with a social hour, followed by the Buffet Dinner at 6:15 p.m. and the keynote presentation at 7:30 p.m. A cash bar will be available at the front of the Athletic Club. 

As in the past, a “flock” of bird-themed raffle items and door prizes will be presented. Information and tickets for the Charter Dinner Raffle (a bucket raffle) is available at https://doas.us/2025-dinner-raffle/ and will be available at the Open House event at the DOAS Sanctuary on Franklin Mountain on October 4. Charter Raffle winners do not need to be present at the dinner.

Our keynote speaker for the evening will be Julie Brown who serves as the Director of The Hawk Migration Association. This program will be a part of our in-person Charter Dinner event at the 6th Ward Athletic Club Banquet Room, but anyone may attend on Zoom free of charge. Due to space limitations at the facilities this year, in person attendance for the program portion will not be possible. To register for the program only via Zoom, please visit this link: https://tinyurl.com/2f3cmt7c .

The cost for the dinner is $42 per person. Reservations must be made by October 10, using the “Print and Mail” form HERE or by submitting the form below. (There is an additional $2 charge per person for online processing. ) If you are interested in registration after the deadline, please contact Kathryn Davino at 607-397-3815. We usually secure a few additional spots for late registrants.  IMPORTANT: Space is limited at this venue, so please register early! Should we reach capacity for the evening, we will start a waiting list in the event of any cancellations.

Please contact Kathryn Davino (607-397-3815) with any questions.

Menu

Catered by Bella Michael’s Restaurant

• Cocktail Hour Appetizers ~Meat, Cheese & Cracker Platter
• Mixed Green Salad with choice of two dressings
• Chicken Marsala with mushrooms
• Baked Haddock seasoned with garlic and herbs
• Eggplant Rollatini
• Seasonal Market Vegetables
• Roasted Potatoes
• Italian Bread & Garlic Bread
• Desserts: Chocolate/Yellow Marble Cake or Assorted Fruit 
• *Coffee & assorted hot teas

Click Here for Online Registration

The Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society will host Ben Goldfarb, a renowned environmental journalist, on Friday, November 21, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. via Zoom. Ben will be discussing the challenges of our road systems to wildlife along with solutions, the topic of his latest award-winning book, Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet. This program is free and open to the public.

Registration is required at https://tinyurl.com/yfb7ww48

Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, yet we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. While roads are so ubiquitous they’re practically invisible to us, wild animals experience them as alien forces of death and disruption. More than a million animals are killed by cars each day in the U.S. alone; creatures from antelope to salmon are losing their ability to migrate in search of food and mates; and the very noise of traffic chases songbirds from vast swaths of habitat. Today road ecologists are seeking to blunt that destruction through innovative solutions. Conservationists are building bridges for California’s mountain lions and tunnels for English toads, engineers are deconstructing the labyrinth of logging roads that web national forests, and community organizers are working to undo the havoc highways have wreaked upon American cities. In his talk, Ben Goldfarb will discuss the ecological harms wrought by transportation and the movement to redress them — and how we can create a better, safer world for all living beings. 

About the Presenter

Ben Goldfarb is an environmental journalist whose work has appeared in National Geographic, the Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, and many other publications, and has twice been anthologized in the Best American Science & Nature Writing. His most recent book, Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, was named one of the best books of 2023 by the New York Times and the New Yorker, and received the Rachel Carson Award for Excellence in Environmental Writing and the Banff Book Competition’s Grand Prize. His previous book, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, won the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. He lives in Colorado with his wife, Elise, and his dog, Kit — which is, of course, what you call a baby beaver.